Tag: contracts
U.S. CFTC Proposes Ban on Political Event Contracts
Prediction platforms including PredictIt, Polymarket, Zeitgeist and Kalshi give users opportunities to buy contracts on the outcomes of actual events, [...]
OP_CAT Proposal to Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Finally Gets a ‘BIP Number’
While Quantum Cats is one of the most popular inscription projects to date, OP_CAT itself is far from universally accepted. There is some speculation, [...]
AI Safety for Smart Contracts Is AI Safety for the World
Second, there’s authentication of inputs to LLMs, which means ensuring that inputs are trustworthy for a given purpose. For example, to decide whether [...]
DLC.Link Uses Discreet Log Contracts to Create ‘Safer Wrapped Bitcoin’
April 11: DLC.Link, describing itself as the "self-wrapping trustless bridge to DeFi," announced the release of dlcBTC, "a safer wrapped Bitcoin alter [...]
Stellar Starts Phased Rollout of 'Soroban' Smart Contracts
The "Protocol 20" upgrade, which adds support for Ethereum-style smart contracts to the decade-old payments-focused blockchain, had been delayed by th [...]
StoneX registers 53% Y/Y increase in revenues from FX/CFD contracts in Q1 FY24
StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ:SNEX), the owner of Forex brands such as FOREX.com and City Index, has published its financial results for the [...]
CEO Sentenced for Transnational “Cherry-Picking” Scheme Involving Foreign Exchange and Cryptocurrency Futures Contracts – Forex Factory
CEO Sentenced for Transnational “Cherry-Picking” Scheme Involving Foreign Exchange and Cryptocurrency Futures Contracts Forex Factory
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Fujitsu: MPs seek details on public sector contracts with IT firm
The letter, which calls for a reply within a fortnight, asks about the value of any contracts, whether they were awarded through open competition, if [...]
Pentagon awards satellite contracts: L3Harris, Lockheed, Sierra Space
Lockheed Martin's Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites are seen in one of the company's processing facilities.Lockheed MartinThe Pentagon on Tuesday a [...]
CME Group registers record international ADV of 6.8M contracts in 2023
Derivatives marketplace CME Group today announced that average daily volume (ADV) outside the United States reached a record 6.8 million [...]
CME Group to launch longer-dated event contracts
International derivatives marketplace CME Group will launch event contracts with quarter- and year-end expiries for E-mini S&P 500 a [...]
Elastos’ BeL2 Blockchain Looks to Offer Staking, Smart Contracts
BeL2 will allow more sophisticated bitcoin transactions than the base Bitcoin blockchain, including smart contracts and irreversible digital agreement [...]
Australian Industry Index contracts in November, lowest reading since June 2020
The data is for November, not October. This data from AiG used to be a focus but the S&P Global PMIs are now more closely watched. Key points from [...]
Web3 firm detects major security flaw in common smart contracts
Smart contract development firm Thirdweb reported a security vulnerability that potentially “impacts a variety of smart contracts across the Web3 ecos [...]
Ethereum’s Layer-2 Expansion, Rise of Zero-Knowledge Cryptography, and Bitcoin’s New Frontier in Tokenization, Smart Contracts, and File Hosting
LAYER 2'S EVERYWHERE: In last week's The Protocol, we dedicated a not-inconsiderable quantity of ink to the fast-growing list of new "layer 2" blockch [...]